Judge Allows Access to Guantanamo Detainee
Washington Post
8/23/2009
A federal judge has ordered the government to allow attorneys for a detainee challenging his confinement at Guantanamo Bay to submit questions about his case to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was made public Thursday in a federal lawsuit brought by the detainee, Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani, a Pakistani who has been held at the U.S. military facility in Cuba since 2004. The government alleges that Rabbani was an al-Qaeda member.
Agnieszka Fryszman, an attorney for Rabbani, said the ruling is "a good one for the truth and the court system."
"It's responsible and narrow and will enable Mr. Rabbani to present accurate evidence about whether or not he was a household menial laborer who has been wrongly held," she said.